Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find Christ on Park Avenue. You can find him, though, on Second Avenue or in Harlem. The church needs you. You don't need the church. Go as Christians, I tell you, and bring God to the church. Take the church at its word. Accept the slogan, 'A house of prayer for all people...
...knows well that here is a leader that knows his business, his mind. He is definite and outspoken. Last year he was offered the pastorate of the Park Avenue Baptist Church,* at Park Avenue and 64th St., Manhattan, from which Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin had retired. Dr. Fosdick accepted the call, with the following stipulations: that membership in the congregation be open to all who accept evangelical Christianity (Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Presbyterians and the like); that Baptist rites and doctrine be not insisted upon; that his salary shall not exceed $5,000; that he may continue teaching at the Union Theological...
...cannot now and will not later accept compulsory arbitration. We do not propose to barter away for a mess of pottage the inherent and individual rights of the anthracite workers. Our people are anxious to work, but not at the price of their freedom and manhood...
Conclusion. M. Lamoureux, reporter of the original Cartel bill, stormed: "If the Chamber goes on at this rate, the budget deficit will never be met by our scheme and we shall have to accept after all the Government scheme of a sales tax or tax on payments" (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante). Since the Chamber gave every sign of continuing to "go on" indefinitely, M. Lamoureux and the Socialist fiscal expert, M. Auriol finally walked out of the Chamber hurling shrill rebukes right and left...
...were merely pornerastic laymen with a smattering of technical terminology. Of recent years they have been filtering back, spread-eagling their "specialties" on flamboyant office signs, advertising especially in the foreign language and Negro newspapers, greatly daring even to insert their advertisements in such English-speaking sheets as would accept their copy...